Afghan villagers and volunteers on Monday helped dig for survivors of a series of earthquakes that killed more than 2,000 people, as aid began trickling into the devastated region.
Volunteers in trucks packed with food, tents and blankets flocked to hard-to-reach areas 30 kilometres northwest of Herat city, capital of the same-named province, hit by a magnitude 6.3 quake Saturday and eight powerful aftershocks.
"Everyone is busy searching for bodies everywhere, we don't know if there are others as well under the debris." Most rural homes in Afghanistan are made of mud built around wooden support poles, with little in the way of modern steel reinforcement. Herat province -- home to around 1.9 million people on the border with Iran -- has also been hit by a years-long drought that has crippled many hardscrabble farm communities.
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